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Skeleton Found In A Rhode Island Cave, Possibility Of Lyme Disease, Tooba Ghafoor
Skeleton Found In A Rhode Island Cave, Possibility Of Lyme Disease, Tooba Ghafoor
2014 Honors Council of the Illinois Region Papers
A skeleton of a member of the Wampanoag tribe was recently found in a cave near the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Examination of the skeleton revealed the individual was most likely a male in his late 40s. Six Amblyomma americanum and nine Xodes scapalaris ticks were found in the fur cloth of the individual. These ticks, as well as abnormalities of the skeleton, including a missing arm and broken rib, raise the possibility of the individual suffering and dying from Lyme disease. Carbon-14 dated the remains and ticks to the year 1600.
Kill To Conserve: Ethical Implications Of Trophy Hunting Conservation Measures, Nicholas Bashqawi
Kill To Conserve: Ethical Implications Of Trophy Hunting Conservation Measures, Nicholas Bashqawi
2014 Honors Council of the Illinois Region Papers
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Communicative Action And Mass Communication Via Internet Technologies, Jonathan Kaye
Communicative Action And Mass Communication Via Internet Technologies, Jonathan Kaye
2014 Honors Council of the Illinois Region Papers
The purpose of this study was to analyze the work of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, focusing on his theory of communicative action. In his work, Habermas specifically probes the epistemological question; how human beings can know anything at all? Through an interconnected scheme of: survival challenges, knowledge and action; there is found grounding for the physical sciences, the social sciences and philosophy itself. Communicative action becomes the “glue” that holds society together in reference to those sciences, for Habermas, communicative action is how shared meaning about the world is established and it is through communicative action and based on communicative …
Is There An Animal Consciousness? A Phenomenological Approach, Matt Mazur
Is There An Animal Consciousness? A Phenomenological Approach, Matt Mazur
2014 Honors Council of the Illinois Region Papers
The notion of consciousness, animal or otherwise, has been often discussed throughout the history of human thought. More recently it has become a topic for debate in philosophy with many competing ideas emerging. This paper is an attempt to discuss the nature of animal consciousness using a phenomenological approach. Phenomenology is a branch of philosophy with the goal of discovering and describing the true nature of phenomena beyond the human subjective experience of them. Using the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work on perception, this paper argues for the acceptance of a form of consciousness in many animals while also seeking …